Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-26


crumbs to those birds caught too far north
in the winters inclemency. Arrest that
man who is making that one horse draw
q load heavy enough for three.
Rush in upon that scene where boys are
torturing a cat, or transtixing butterfly
and grasshopper. Drive not off that old
robin for her nest is a mothers cradle and
under her wing there may be three or four
prima donnas of the sky in training And
in your families and in your schools teach
the coming generation more mercy than
the present generation has ever shown,
and in this marvellous Bible picture of the
nativity, while you point out TO them the
angel, show them also the camel, and
while they hear the celestial chant LEI
them also hear the cows moan. No more
did Christ show interest in the botanical
world when he said, Consider the lilies, "
than he showed sympathy for the ornitho,
logical when he said, 'Behold the fowls OF
the air, " and the quadrupedal world when
he allowed himself to be called in one
place lion and in another place a lamb.
Meanwhile, may the Christ Of the Bethle'
hem catte-pen have mercy on the suffer
ing stock-yards that are preparing dis
eased and fevered meat for our American
households.
HOSoRED CHILDHOOD.
Behold also in the Bible scene how on
that Christmas night God honored child.
hood Christ might have made his first
visit to our world in a cloud, rs he will
descend on his next visit in a cloud In
what chariot of illumined vapor he might
have rolled down the sky escorted by
mounted cavalry with lightning of drawn
swords. Elijah had a carriage of fire tC
take him up, why not Jesus carriage oi
fire to fetch him down? Or, over the arch
ed bridge of a rainbow the Lord might
have descended. Or Christ might have
had his mortality built up on earth after
the dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full
manhood at the first without the introduC'
tory of feebleness of infancy. No, no
Childhood was TO he honored by that ad
vent. He must have child's light
limbs, and child's dimpled hand, aud d
child's beaming eye, aud child's haNer
hair, and baby hood was to be honOied fol
all time to come, and a cradle was 20 meal
more than a grave. Mighty God! May
the reflection OF that one Child's
face be seen in all iniantile faces. Enough
have all those fathers and mothers Oh
hand if they have a child in the house
4 throne, crown, sceptre, kingdom
under charge Be careful how you strike
him across the head, jarring the brain
What you say to him will be centennial
aud millenisl, and hundred years and d
thousand years will not stop the echo and
re echo Do not say, at is only child. u
Rather say, ut is only an immortal II
is only n masterpiece of Jehovah. II is
only being that shall outlIve sun, moon
ana stars, and Gges quadrillenial. God
has infinite resources, and lie can give
presents of great value, but when he wants
to give the richest possible gift to house
hold he looks around all the world and
all the universe and then gives child
The greate.t present that God ever gave
our world he gave about 1887 years ago,
and he gave it on a Christmas night, and
il was OF such value that heaven adjourned
for reason and came down and broke
through the clouds to look Mt it. Yea, in
all ages God has h0nored childhood. He
makes almost every picture failure un'
less there he child either playing on the
floor, or looking through the window, oI
seated on the lap gazing into the face o.
its mother. II was child in Naaman'
kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior
where he might 20 and get cured of the lep
rosy, which at his seventh plunge in tho
.I0r,lan was left at the bottom Of the river
II was to the cradle Of leaves in which n
child was laid rocked by the Nile that
God called the attention OF history. il
was a sick child that evoked Christ's cur
atiye sympathies.
A LESSON OF HUMILITY.
II was n child thst Christ set ia the
midst OF the squabbling disciples TO teach
the lesson of humility. We are informed
that wolf and leopard aud lion shall be
vet 10 dOmesticated that little child
shall lead them. 4 child decided Water
lOo showing The army Of BluchcT how
they could take n short cut through the
fields when, if the old road had been fol
lowed, the Prussian general would have
come up too late 10 save the destinies oI
Europe. II was a child that decided Get
tyshurg. he having overheard two C0nfed'
crate generals in a conversation in which
they decided to march for Gettysburg in
stead of Harrisburg, and this, reported tC
Governor Curtin, the FedeTal forces started
to meet their opponents NJ Gettysburg
And the child of to-day is to decide all the
great battles, make all the laws, settle all
the destinies and usher in the worlds sal
vation or destruction. Men, women, ma
tions, all earth and heaven, behold the
child Is there any velvet 20 soft 3 q
child's cheek? Is there any sky 50 blue
as a chili's eve? Is there any music ~
sweet az the child's voice. l. there any
plume ~ wavy as a child's hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneoling before the divine 10.
faut? Not Doors, not ignOramuses, but
Casper, Belthasar and Melch;or men who
knew all that was 10 be knoSn. They
were the Isaac Newtons and Eierschels and
Faradays of their time. Their alchemy
was the fOreTuuner Of our sublime chemls
try, their astroIogy the mother of our mag
nifcent astronomy. They hal studied
stara. studied metals, studied physiology
studied everything. And when 7 see these
scientists bowling before the beautiful babe
| see the prophecy of the time when all The
telescopes and microscopes, and all the
Leyden jars, and all the electric batteries,
and all tie obsPrvatOries, and all the uni
versities shall bow to Jesus. II is much
that way already. Where is the college
that does not have morning prayers, thus
bowing at the maDger2 Who have been
the greatest physicians? Omitting the
names OF the living, lest We should
he inviiiaus, have ws rot had
them Christian men like
our own Joseph c. Hutchinson, and Rush,
and Valentine Mott, and AberCrOmbie and
and Abernethy? Who have been osr
greatest scientists? Joseph Henry, who
lived and died in the faith Of the Gospel,
and Agassiz, who, standing with his stu.
dents among the hills, took Of his hat and
said, Young gentlemen, before We study
these rocks let us pray for wisdom to The
God who made the rocks"
THE DOCTORS OF TO-DAY.